RE: [NON-WHINE] RE: mkstemp vs. text mode

2006-04-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
More non-negative news: The Cygwin/X Server creates its own subdirectory and a bunch of files in /tmp and still appears to work fine. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary R. > Van Sickle >

[NON-WHINE] RE: mkstemp vs. text mode

2006-04-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Gary R. Van Sickle > > > From: Gary R. Van Sickle > > > > > From: Christopher Faylor > > [snip] > > > Yes, I think it makes sense to open temp files in binary > > but I'll bet > > > that someone is relying on textmode beh

RE: mkstemp vs. text mode

2006-04-17 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Gary R. Van Sickle > > > From: Christopher Faylor > [snip] > > Yes, I think it makes sense to open temp files in binary > but I'll bet > > that someone is relying on textmode behavior. > > I'll see that bet and raise you

RE: mkstemp vs. text mode

2006-04-17 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
he patch. > > Let the cygwin ML whines begin... > > cgf Ok, I'm about to give it a try (assuming this is in the latest snapshot). When I have some positive results, I shall post them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I have negative results, should I post them there as well, or would that be considered a "whine"? -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: [PATCH]: "decorate" gcc extensions with __extension__

2005-03-29 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
an error, explicitly expanding to "a ? a : c" > makes the code easier to read and the intent more clear. Yikes. I didn't even know you could do "a ? : c". When did C++ become Perl? -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: sync(3)

2004-10-26 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
mments in there saying that it really can't be relied on to do anything though. That will avoid people who come along later, see that sync looks like it should be "working" but isn't, and wonder what's wrong when there really isn't anything "wrong". -- Gary

RE: More pipe problems (was Re: [Fwd: 1.5.11-1: sftp performance problem])

2004-10-05 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
with pipe buffering. > God. Leave it to Bill. I wonder if WriteQuotaAvailable isn't actually the counter of the semaphore that gets pended on. -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: [PATCH]: Still path.cc

2004-09-22 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
"It's your fault". > > Actually, now that I think of it it's usually all three. > > HTH. God you are a piece of work Faylor. What caused all these problems you suffer from, this hatred of your fellow man? Or do you just have absolutely *zero* people-skills and don't even know what your typing? Or what? What's wrong Chris? Maybe we can debug *you*, and reap the benefits of your work[1] without having to endure the BS. Help us help you, Chris. Help us, help you. -- Gary R. Van Sickle [1] DISCLAIMER: This statement is not to be construed as a 'Thank you' and is therefore *NOT* fair game in anyone's mind for directing "shame" at me.

RE: Fixing the delete queue security

2003-09-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
You are a *God*, Pierre. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. > Cygwin uses a "delete queue" in a shared file mapping to hold > the names of files that could not be deleted on unlink, usually > because they were still opened. The queue is scanned by all > proce

RE: Fixing a security hole in mount table.

2003-09-09 Thread Gary R Van Sickle
ea. What if I want to install > a private > version of cygwin on a machine to which I don't have Admin access? > (ITFascists can shut up right now; I'm not listening..."You > vill use de > Microsoft Application Suite ve haf provided, and nuzzing else!") I like

RE: Create new files as sparse on NT systems. (2nd try)

2003-02-18 Thread Gary R Van Sickle
't see the benefit and can only imagine the consequences. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Braemar Inc. 11481 Rupp Dr. Burnsville, MN 55337

RE: Produce beeps using soundcard

2003-02-13 Thread Gary R Van Sickle
What am I missing here? Beep (412, 100) ==> MessageBeep ((unsigned)-1) and we're done, right? No need for any CYGWIN= hoobajoob or another static BOOL or anything. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Braemar Inc. 11481 Rupp Dr. Burnsville, MN 55337 > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:32:47PM -,

RE: etc_changed, passwd & group

2003-01-21 Thread Gary R Van Sickle
are completely unable to take it. Mature a little Chris, for your own sake. Christ. >From what I can gather, you're both on to a major Cygwin improvement here; don't let a little ribbing get you so bent out of joint that Humblet says, "screw it, do it yourself". -- Gary R. Van Sickle Braemar Inc. 11481 Rupp Dr. Burnsville, MN 55337

RE: open () on Win95 directories

2002-09-17 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Hehehehe, I was just about to hit send on a reply to your original email on this Pierre! It wasn't going to have a nice patch attached though. Thanks for tracking this down and fixing it. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Patch: Re: Bug in stat()?

2002-05-02 Thread Gary R Van Sickle
ng this posted to cygwin-patches@". -- Gary R. Van Sickle Braemar Inc. 11481 Rupp Dr. Burnsville, MN 55337

RE: [PATCH] Setup Chooser integration

2002-04-03 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
s*, it would uninstall gcc because gcc depends on them. But on further reflection I'm no longer sure even that is desirable. If I uninstall ash, should say make get deleted even though I have bash as sh? -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot.

RE: [PATCH] Setup Chooser integration

2002-04-02 Thread Gary R Van Sickle
een real crazy about their installers - things that seem like they should be "tree-like" aren't (e.g. selecting sub-elements of a package), and things are presented in tree-fashion that don't seem like they should be (selecting the "install/install on demand/don't install"). > Anyway, is this clear as mud? > Hey, if this stuff was easy, anybody could do it. ;-) > Rob > -- Gary R. Van Sickle Braemar Inc. 11481 Rupp Dr. Burnsville, MN 55337 <>

[PATCH] Setup Chooser integration

2002-04-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
ALT-TAB no longer! This patch integrates the chooser into the wizard interface, eliminating a field-expedient thread in the process. Changelog also attached: 2002-04-02 Gary R. Van Sickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * choose.cc: Run indent. (nextbutton): Remove static va

RE: [PATCH] Percent complete in Setup.exe window title.

2002-02-24 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 2:26 AM > To: Gary R. Van Sickle > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PATCH] Percent complete in Setup.exe window title. > > > Looks nice. I'll com

[PATCH] Percent complete in Setup.exe window title.

2002-02-23 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
This one goes good with the new minimizeability of Setup.exe: 2002-02-24 Gary R. Van Sickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * res.rc (STRINGTABLE): Add IDS_CYGWIN_SETUP and IDS_CYGWIN_SETUP_WITH_PROGRESS strings. * resource.h: Add IDS_CYGWIN_SET

RE: For the curious: Setup.exe char-> String patch

2002-02-01 Thread Gary R Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > -Original Message- > > From: Gary R Van Sickle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > I think it would behoove us greatly to duplicate the semantics of > > std::string her

RE: For the curious: Setup.exe char-> String patch

2002-02-01 Thread Gary R Van Sickle
; > static void > -init_dialog (char const *url, int length, HWND owner) > +init_dialog (String const url, int length, HWND owner) ^^^^^^^^ This would be better written "const String &url". -- Gary R. Van Sickle Braemar Inc. 11481 Rupp Dr. Burnsville, MN 55337

RE: [PATCH]Reduce messages in setup.log

2002-01-28 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
* usage (I got sick of memleaks) Yeah, I'm cryin' my eyes out here. ;-) > for a > quick-and-dirtyish String class. Sigh, still no STL. Rob, would you care to just graft more functionality onto my embryonic "cistring" class? Or was that the plan? -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot.

RE: src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/winnt.h

2002-01-14 Thread Gary R Van Sickle
least put a comment in winbase.h explaining why it isn't there. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Braemar Inc. 11481 Rupp Dr. Burnsville, MN 55337

[PATCH] Setup.exe page navigation when using local dir install

2002-01-07 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
This should make moving around a little easier. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. setup.diff Description: Binary data ChangeLog.setup.grvs Description: Binary data

RE: setup.exe remove scripts [Was: Re: experimental texmf packages]

2002-01-03 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
le.in iniparse Change, I think that's wrong (at first > glance) as Chris already patched that to allow both new and old bisons. Yeah, I'm not 100% convinced it's right either, but I get a ".hh" out of "bison (GNU Bison) 1.30", not a ".cc.h". Mayb

RE: setup.exe remove scripts [Was: Re: experimental texmf packages]

2002-01-03 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 3:27 AM > To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen; Gary R. Van Sickle > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: setup.exe remove scripts [Was: Re: experimental texmf > packages] >

RE: [PATCH] Setup.exe "other URL" functionality

2002-01-03 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Collins > > - Original Message - > From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Yep, it looks like that combined with me now using binary

RE: [PATCH] Setup.exe "other URL" functionality

2001-12-31 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
t and starts spreading trojans or something? > As far as UI goes, I think the combobox + a text box for the new site is > fine. But rather than a radio button to choose which is used, have an > Add button to the right of the textbox, and also make Enter in the > textbox trigger an add. Rem

RE: [PATCH] Setup.exe "other URL" functionality

2001-12-30 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
equired for the submitted patch; but then going to, say, an "Add new URL" button is going to need a dialog box from somewhere.... > Other than that it looks good, if you can explain 1) to me :], correct > 2) and answer 3) and then send a new diff, with all modified files > indented, I'll re-review 2) and check it in. If you want to split out > the other changes from 2) and do two patches the other stuff can go in > without any more round trips. > Let me think on the last one. I think we're probably going to need the dialog back, just not in the "Next/Back" form that it was in. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot.

RE: [PATCH] Setup.exe "other URL" functionality

2001-12-28 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
are in fact indented differently - I thought you had to "diff -b" to ignore WS changes?). So I guess I'm out of WAGes now, unless cvs is tracking the file-moving and claiming that a file with, say, the same contents but a different creation date or something is completely different, regardless of contents. But I don't think that would explain the initial problem because I never moved any files. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot.

RE: [PATCH] Setup.exe "other URL" functionality

2001-12-28 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
the world of list subscribers anyway) start to get to a few tens of KB ;-). -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot.

[PATCH] Setup.exe "other URL" functionality

2001-12-28 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
contents of several files, while the smaller one (-pub'd) is rather less agressive. Take your pick, it's Gair's Bimonthly 2-for-1 Sale! Every diff must go! ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. ChangeLog.setup.grvs Description: Binary data setup.diff.pu.bz2 Description: Binary data setup.diff.pub.bz2 Description: Binary data

RE: [PATCH] Update 3 - Setup.exe property sheet patch

2001-12-23 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> === > - Original Message - > From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > - indented per indent's GNU formatting abilities (FYI: the new indent > 2.2.7 > > looks like it can handle C++ pretty well). > > Committed. Than

[PATCH] Update 3 - Setup.exe property sheet patch

2001-12-22 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
e (and complete source) at http://home.att.net/~g.r.vansickle/cygwin/setup/. "...and I'm spent!" - Austin Powers -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. setup.diff.bz2 Description: Binary data setup-newfiles.tar.bz2 Description: Binary data setup.ChangeLog Description: Binary data

RE: [PATCH] Update 2 - Setup.exe property sheet patch

2001-12-20 Thread Gary R Van Sickle
being handled properly? > I've attached an updated patch for you with the virtual functions > actually still virtual. > Thanks, and thanks for running it through indent. It looks all GNUey now ;-). > Rob > -- Gary R. Van Sickle Braemar Inc. 11481 Rupp Dr. Burnsville, MN 55337

[PATCH] Update 2 - Setup.exe property sheet patch

2001-12-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Changes as per your (Rob) last email, plus a few other improvements. Diff, new files, and ChangeLog attached. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. setup.diff.bz2 Description: Binary data setup-newfiles.tar.bz2 Description: Binary data setup.ChangeLog Description: Binary data

RE: [PATCH] Update - Setup.exe property sheet patch, properly diffed.

2001-12-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
t; but it sounds like the jury is still out for you as well. > > Rob Ah, OK, I almost completely misunderstood you there. Makes sense now; will do barring any unforseen craziness, which I don't forsee. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot.

RE: [PATCH] Update - Setup.exe property sheet patch, properly diffed.

2001-12-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Collins > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 5:30 AM > To: Gary R. Van Sickle; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update - Setup.exe property sheet patch, properly > diffed. > > > Ok

RE: [PATCH] Setup.exe in a property sheet

2001-12-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
do. [snip] > > cvs would have been pretty badly broken for too long. Believe me when > I tell > > you I had *zero* fun writing that 10K ChangeLog entry! But once this > is checked > > in, I'm sure this will be a lot easier. > > I know *exactly* what you mean regarding the ChangeLogs. To be honest I > didn't look at yours yet - I figured it was too early in the piece. > It's only going to get bigger Rob; like the t-shirt says, "Procrastinate NOW!". ;-) Just to clarify, did you want me to get this diffed against the latest before you check any of it in? There's only one or two files that are diffed against non-current HEAD to my knowledge, but I can sure do it, but I'll need a hint as to how I can do a "cvs update" without bringing back a bunch of stuff that I'll need to cut right back out again. Or am I SOL and I'll just have to do it by hand? > Rob > -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot.

RE: [PATCH] Setup.exe in a property sheet

2001-12-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
en the class conversion for the pages. > etc. That just reduces the risk of a huge commit. > I agree completely, and that was in fact my original intent. As things went on though, I just couldn't see how that would really be possible or practical; the cvs would have been pretty badly broken for too long. Believe me when I tell you I had *zero* fun writing that 10K ChangeLog entry! But once this is checked in, I'm sure this will be a lot easier. > Rob > > -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot.

[PATCH] Setup.exe in a property sheet

2001-12-18 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
so bzip2ed because it's ~200KB plain. As per previous discussions, this code now only centers itself on startup and not every time you turn the page, and the download-but-don't-install functionality now works. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. setup.diff.bz2 Description: Binary da

RE: setup.exe remove scripts [Was: Re: experimental texmf packages]

2001-12-16 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
how, Jan. Are you sure you have both the current "mingw runtime" stuff and a current *full* CVS tree of cygwin? The setup build pulls in a bunch of header directories from the cygwin tree as well as your regular mingw stuff, so it might be some issue there. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot.